I’ve been running an SSD as my primary drive for a few weeks now and it performs quite well without issues. Visual Studio build times are cut way down which for a huge project like the one I am working on means savings of tens of seconds per build, which is huge. Outlook doesn’t hang.…
Organizations often implement EPM tools to capture tribal secrets at imminent risk of walking out the door as newer generations supplant more seasoned employees. This phenomenon provides the context for identifying one of the key challenges to any EPM deployment, a topic that I have been spending some time considering over the last couple of…
% Complete and Actual Duration are two of those fields that everyone uses, but few people actually understand the background calculations. Most of my students seem to assume that Actual Duration is the elapsed duration between the start of a task and the finish of a task. Well it is – most of the…
This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile transformation. You can read the first six parts of this series here: Part I: Introduction Part II: Vision and Risk Part III: Backlog Management Part IV: Key Players Part V: Sprint Execution Part VI: Key…
Why do organizations conduct employee performance reviews? This question has been pestering me for some time now. We had implemented a comprehensive employee performance review process at Catapult Systems almost since day one. But why? When I started the company back in 1993, I just assumed that it was a necessary component of having employees.…
Importing duplicate drivers into Configuration Manager has adequately been covered by Johan and William Bracken. The process that both outline in their posts is simple and easy to implement but very time consuming if done manually on more than one or two system models. At a client recently, I whipped up a quick script to…
Here is my slide deck from a ConfigMgr OSD 101 and Best Practices presentation I recently gave at the Central Texas Systems Management User Group (CTSMUG). CTSMUG is run by Greg Ramsey.
Q. What’s new in USMT 4? A. Easier to reference a link on this one: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560752(WS.10).aspx. Here’s a quick list though: Hard-link migration store Improved Space estimation Ability to gather data from an offline Windows® operating system using the ScanState command Domain controller access is no longer required by ScanState and LoadState. Integration with Microsoft…
This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile transformation. You can read the first five parts of this series here: Part I: Introduction Part II: Vision and Risk Part III: Backlog Management Part IV: Key Players Part V: Sprint Execution In Part IV…
Every good consulting engagement begins with a good written proposal. Most proposals that I’ve seen include some section somewhere buried amongst the boilerplate which discusses the specific roles and responsibilities of the consulting and implementing organizations. Typically, the verbiage appears something like the following: The Consulting Agency Responsibilities: Install the tool Understand the client’s processes…
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